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    Wesley Parish

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  1. Comment - Judge Criticizes MS Settlement Progress

    (Oct 29, 2005 - 4:27 AM)

    Yep. I'd like to know that as well. I once had to remove Internet Explorer - or as I prefer to call it, Internet Exploitee - from an MS Windows box, and the blessed thing wouldn't boot after that.

    It's an official virus vector. I can guarantee you - or anyone else for that matter - that at least 50% of the viruses and other malware you get on an MS Windows box are there courtesy of Microsoft's "innovating" an insecure user interface level - the browser - into the MW Win9x and WinNT kernels. It's like that Far Side cartoon where "Listen to music" and "Make the wings drop off" are options on an airliner's passenger seat, and one passenger gets it wrong. :-)

  2. Comment - Mass. Secretary Attacks Open Doc Plan

    (Oct 27, 2005 - 6:02 AM)

    Interesting that one Massachusetts Senator Marc Pacheco is concerned that Open Document would not be usable by the disabled. As someone legally "disabled" from a TBI I'm delighted that someone's concerned about us ...

    What is he worried about? He doesn't say. Are we going to become _more_ disabled because OpenDocument saves text plus formatting as text plus XML formatting compressed in the ZIP format?

    When he can come up with a reason, let me know.

  3. Comment - Interview: Corel on Sun, Open Standards

    (Oct 27, 2005 - 5:00 AM)

    What I don't understand is, if they are so certain they have a better product
    than MS Office, and are relying on OpenOffice.org to do most of the
    market-making and ground-breaking groundwork for them, which would only leave
    them in third or fourth position, neck-and-neck with Lotus SmartSuite, why they
    don't do some of their own market-making and ground-breaking themselves.

    This could be something as simple as releasing the source code for WordPerfect
    5.1 (the DOS version) under some OSI approved license as a donation to the
    FreeDOS folk, and use that to grab headlines. I mean, FreeDOS does make
    headlines, even though it doesn't grab quite the same top billing as Linux - but
    most techie publications would quite happily run a series of articles on such a
    donation by Corel!

    No news is bad news, even when you've got a competent product. It's when people
    can identify you as a competitor that they'll take notice, and Corel has been
    well off the radar for so long I'd thought they'd flown into Mt Erebus!

  4. Comment - AOL Opens Up Audio, Video Technology

    (Jun 4, 2005 - 8:35 AM)

    Good move. Logically, the next thing would be of course to open-source Winamp. I mean, it is "free as in beer" at the current moment.